que-rb/que

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Que is a Ruby job queue backed by PostgreSQL that uses advisory locks for high-throughput, reliable background job processing. Jobs are stored transactionally alongside application data, gaining ACID guarantees and simple backups.

Use cases

• run background jobs in a ruby app using postgres instead of redis
• queue jobs transactionally with database changes
• high-throughput job processing with many workers
• ensure background jobs are not lost when a process crashes
• replace sidekiq with a postgres-backed queue

When to choose

• you already use PostgreSQL and want fewer infrastructure dependencies
• you need jobs committed or rolled back atomically with your data
• reliability and exactly-once semantics matter more than exotic features

When to avoid

• you need a queue decoupled from your primary database
• you require very high throughput beyond what a single Postgres can handle
• you need features like native scheduled jobs across multiple brokers or complex routing

Facets

library · maturity active

message-queue scheduling concurrency backend databases developer-tools ruby job-queue postgresql advisory-locks background-jobs activejob transactional linux macos

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